Title: Bayesian Optimization Speaker: Dr. Mike OsborneAffiliation: Department of Engineering Science - University of Oxford Location: Room 145 HuxleyTime: 2:00pmAbstract. About the speaker.

Title: McCormick Relaxations: Convergence Rate and Extension to Multivariate Outer FunctionsSpeaker: Prof. Alexander MitsosAffiliation: Laboratory for Process Systems Engineering - RWTH Aachen UniversityLocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 3:00pmAbstract. Optimization is a widely used tool in process systems engineering, but often the optimization problems have multiple suboptimal local minima. Deterministic global optimization algorithms can... Read more »

Title: Worst-case complexity of nonlinear optimization: Where do we stand?Speaker: Prof. Philippe TointAffiliation: Department of Mathematics – Université de NamurLocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 11:00amAbstract. We review the available results on the evaluation complexity of algorithms using Lipschitz-continuous Hessians for the approximate solution of nonlinear and potentially nonconvex optimization problems. Here, evaluation complexity... Read more »